Civil War Terms

Fort Sumter
Executive Power
Habeas Corpus
Insurrection
Border States
CSA
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
Winfield Scott
Anaconda Plan
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Monitor & Merrimac
Ulysses S. Grant
Shiloh
David Farrugut
Trent Affair
Laird Rams
Confiscation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Sherman's March
Election of 1864
Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth
Copperheads
Ex Parte Milligan
Draft Riots
Greenbacks
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)

Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstructuion
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Andrew Johnson
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
Congressional Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stephens
Benjamin Wade
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
equal protection of laws
due process of law
Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Edwin Stanton
impeachment
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
sharecropping
spoilsmen
patronage
Jay Gould
Credit Mobilier
William (Boss) Tweed; Tweed Ring
Thomas Nast
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
redeemers
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts (1870, 1871)
Amnesty Act of 1872
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
1825-1865

Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation
nullification
John C. Calhoun
Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis
William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator
Dred Scott v Sandford
Stephen Douglas
Bank war
popular sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
American Anti-slavery Society
Maine Laws
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Irish immigration
Mexican American War
John Slidell
Trent Affair
abolitionists
free soilers
Know Nothing/American Party
bleeding Kansas
Second Great Awakening
Mormons
Horace Mann
Worcester v Georgia
Prigg v Pennsylvania
Commonwealth v Hunt
Charles River Bridge case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Transcendentalism
cult of domesticity/true womanhood
Manifest Destiny
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Republican party/3rd Am. Party
Sys.
Whigs/2nd American Party Sys.
gag rule
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Freeport Doctrine
DeTocqueville/Democracy in America
Tariff of Abominations
James K. Polk
William Seward
Ostend Manifesto
Apologist's view of slavery
Fugitive Slave Law
antebellum
Force Act
removal of deposits
Battle of Antietam
Homestead Act
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lucretia Mott
Brigham Young
Neal Dow
Independent Treasury
Specie Circular
Sumner-Brooks Affair
Nashville Convention
Crittenden Compromise
Underground Railroad
Morrill Land Grant Act
Lecompton Constitution
National Banking Act
compact theory
perpetual union nature of the union
Frederick Douglass